Maverick, How I love thee.

In bed at 9:05 last night. Is it weird that I make Billy go to bed that early with me? Poor guy.

Workout this morning:

Stairs 5 Minutes

Pump 60 Minutes

Elliptical 15 Minutes. Do you ever listen to others conversations at the gym? I was next to two girls on the elliptical and I turned the TV on mute so I could listen to them. Hey, it’s their fault they were talking so loud. Okay, I am just nosey.

Taught a spin class at night.

Pump kicked my trash this morning. At first I was angry but then I laughed at my dramatic self and realized that not every workout has to be perfect.

It is okay to take 10 lbs off your bar every now and then.

It is okay to drop your ten pounders for fives after just one set of lateral raises.

It is more than okay to use your bodies momentum to finish your curls.

For lunch I had leftover soup and a spinach salad.

Afternoon snack included this baby- Perk of being a drivers ed teacher. I make the students do my errands and take me to get ice cream at Maveerick when we are out driving.

Dinner was quick and easy. I haven’t been home for 15 hours. It is time to hang with my main squeeze.

Mrs. JM

hey! thanks for stopping by my foodie blog. and for saying the photos are "beautiful" … you're way too nice. that's for sure! i realize they could be so much better but, i'm just trying to keep track of my favorite recipes.

to answer your question, yes, i'm in utah. i live in herriman. seems you're in utah county and that you're one busy woman!

i took up running during the summer of 2008. my 2010 resolution was to run a marathon even though i'd never even ran a 5k (and still haven't!). utah valley was the only marathon not full so i registered for it and trained like crazy. an awesome experience and now i love running. i love running/fitness/foodie blogs! such a great, supportive community. maybe one day i'll start writing about my workouts and such.

I read this and cringed.As a grad studnet and postdoc, I never did anything quite like what you described (probably because cell phones were not ubiquitous), but I can think of more than a few times when my behavior might have signaled to a potential mentor, advisor, employer, etc, that I was not entirely serious or mature. Getting drunk and silly at a conference, engaging in catty girl chat within earshot of a faculty member or potential postdoc mentor, etc. I can even recall more than a few of my early faculty meetings where I forgot to turn off the silly switch. At some point I grew out of this, but it took both a reflective assessment of the range of consequences of such behavior (i.e. people not taking me seriously), and a conscious effort to change.I suspect this kind of behavior reflected some confidence that we “knowledge workers” would always be judged by scholarly productivity, the quality of our work, and the value others placed on our intelligence. I would not describe myself as overly confident, especially compared with so many of my colleagues, but until very recently I did share the scientist/academic conceit that formalities and etiquette don’t really matter that much as long as you do good work. Besides, being fun at parties or breaking the tension at faculty meetings with a funny comment were actually assets. And while I think both parts of that are generally true, one does have to consider what kind of professional image one wants to project.It is not so much a general issue, but rather a combination of personality and environment. We jokers get a lot of positive energy directed toward us, and that can be quite addictive and difficult to give up. The first Anon (4:46) slams it out of the park when distinguishing between academia and the market economy. There is far less external pressure to conform in academia-at least as experienced by young trainees.These days I give career advice to grad studnets and this includes encouraging them to think about the image that they are projecting in any professional situation. Because it does matter, and that is not a bad thing.

Mrs. JM

p.s. i've never tried a spin class. i don't have a gym membership but our city is opening a rec center in february. i'm so excited to back in the gym. i miss my classes. i'll have to add spin to the list.

ihearteggs

I'm the biggest nosey eavesdropper ever. People have such fascinating drama filled lives! One of my friends called once running almost an hour late and my repsonse was simply "thats fine, I'll wait, gotta go, I'm observing a really awkward first date and dont want to miss anything"

and spin… well I give it a shot every now adn then but it's not my thing!